LabRats #097: Why one screen if you can have two?
Most of us have just one monitor to go with our computers, but how often have we wished to have at least two, or even more, so we can not only run more applications at the same time but also see them running? It’s one thing to have more applications running in the background and have only one of them active, and it’s a completely another thing to have them active all at once.
What you do is create two (or more) work-spaces. Of course, there are ways to make individual windows smaller on your normal monitor, but then, you might need a magnifying glass to see them all. Having more monitors is a much better and efficient solution.
One of the beauties: you can even drag stuff from one monitor onto the other. You can also mirror activities on one screen on another screen, an ideal situation in classroom environment, but also in TV editing rooms.
You might need to add a bit of hardware that can accomplish the linking, but since most modern video cards already have the capability, that’s being taken care of.
In this installment of LabRats, Andy Walker and Sean Carruthers describe how to configure two monitors without any major problems.
